Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100715:17:03:00
The blowout preventers is a principal question and probably the underlying question we have at the national commission. >> last week i interviewed marvin odom, the president of shell in aspen, colorado, and he said there were multiple levels of preventive efforts that other companies including shell take, that when they take -- when they drill a well, they put in layers and layers of cementing before they open the pipe, the riser pipe and that bp did none of them. >> it is in view of most of the energy industry. virtually everybody i talked to has deep water drilling that this was a system tha...